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CONWAY AND ITS CASTLE.
however infignificant, has its univerfity-educated native clergy-
man, who preaches in eloquent Welfh, and many of whom, as
well as the native nobility and gentry, pay great attention to
the language as a rich philological ftudy, and difcover in it
traces of the higheft antiquity, clofe kinfhip even to the oldeft
and nobleft languages of the earth. In this refpecft alfo the
Eifteddfod may be called a national college. Neverthelefs, it
is to be wiftied that whilft all means fhould be ufed to preferve
this fine old language as a fpoken tongue, Englifh were more
generally underftood by the people ; pious, intelligent people
as they are ; but whofe dim Saffenach makes them as fealed
books to the friendly Englifh tourift or refident. But ftill,
the power, deep fentiment, and mufical cadence of this remark-
able language, are often exhibited even to thefe in the little
prayer meetings of the wayfide or village chapel, where the
impaffioned and eloquent utterances of the foul are poured
forth in the minor key, with an eloquence and pathos which
even a Beethoven could not furpafs.
Before clofing this long article on Conway, we muft mention
with approbation the good tafte and judgment with which the
great works of modern improvement and civilization—the fus-
penfion bridge, and the railway-works—are made, not only to
harmonize with the caftle, but even to add to it new features
of beauty and dignity.
The caftle is the property of the Crown, but is now held
by Lady Erfkine.
CONWAY AND ITS CASTLE.
however infignificant, has its univerfity-educated native clergy-
man, who preaches in eloquent Welfh, and many of whom, as
well as the native nobility and gentry, pay great attention to
the language as a rich philological ftudy, and difcover in it
traces of the higheft antiquity, clofe kinfhip even to the oldeft
and nobleft languages of the earth. In this refpecft alfo the
Eifteddfod may be called a national college. Neverthelefs, it
is to be wiftied that whilft all means fhould be ufed to preferve
this fine old language as a fpoken tongue, Englifh were more
generally underftood by the people ; pious, intelligent people
as they are ; but whofe dim Saffenach makes them as fealed
books to the friendly Englifh tourift or refident. But ftill,
the power, deep fentiment, and mufical cadence of this remark-
able language, are often exhibited even to thefe in the little
prayer meetings of the wayfide or village chapel, where the
impaffioned and eloquent utterances of the foul are poured
forth in the minor key, with an eloquence and pathos which
even a Beethoven could not furpafs.
Before clofing this long article on Conway, we muft mention
with approbation the good tafte and judgment with which the
great works of modern improvement and civilization—the fus-
penfion bridge, and the railway-works—are made, not only to
harmonize with the caftle, but even to add to it new features
of beauty and dignity.
The caftle is the property of the Crown, but is now held
by Lady Erfkine.